Theos-Talk Archives (February 2006 Message tt00428)

Bart and MKR,  I fully agree. Carlos.

> From: Bart Lidofsky <bartl@sprynet.com>
> Reply-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Theos-World theosophy and theosophical organizations
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:23:52 -0500
>
> 	I am in full agreement with that. If the Mahatmas couldn't find someone
> who could be both a spiritual and organizational leader, then why do we
> think an oligarchically skewed democratic process can?
>
> 	Bart
>
> M K Ramadoss wrote:
> > On the other hand, many tend to confuse the role of the organizations. 
> It is
> > the role of the organizations to handle the business side of theosophy -
> > hold the money and real estate and other assets and do the mechanical 
> job of
> > publishing and may be facilitating interested people getting together. 
> It
> > looks like one  is likely to be disappointed if we look to 
> organizational
> > leaders - who are more like leaders running businesses - for our 
> personal
> > enlightenment or understanding or spiritual progress or gate keepers to 
> the
> > adepts. I think it is this confusion in some of us makes our task of 
> self
> > improvement  difficult. Added to this is the changed circumstances since
> > 1875 with the advances in transportation and communication, especially 
> that
> > of Internet.  In the pre-Internet era, organizing physical branches 
> enabled
> > interested individuals in geographical locations to get together and
> > interact. Now while that mode can still be done, we are able to do it on 
> a
> > 7-24 world wide basis with the advent of Internet.
>
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